Phoenix

Phoenix is a vampire in a world set in Central Europe, in a time after the civilization had already surpassed technology and machinery of automatization and had failed. It's post Golden Age era, where there are only ruins of long forgotten architecture and hubris, and creatures that had came out of it. The vampires that live within and outside of the cities are only born of getting bit by other vampires, and no one remembers or knows who the first one was. There are Hunters, people whose bodies have been augmented and adjusted to hunting vampires and other monsters speficially, giving them longer life span, better reflexes, adjusting some of their body parts too. The werewolves in this society are rather peaceful traveling tribes, who mostly fight within each other. They live alongside humans if they can, they do not need to hunt them, but they'd rather not endanger them.

Vampire Phoenix, who's gone by many names before, is little younger than 200 years since his turning, and became a vampire due to advice from his local witch when he sought out sex change. He was told the witch had only done things like this on people more capable of surviving body taxing ordeals like that, and suggested he'd find someone to turn him. He did, and got his chest adjusted, though the scars stayed. The witch disappeared, either due to moving away or certain hunters getting ahold of him, and Phoenix was left a vampire and flat chested, unable to return to his family, and no one else.

He's outgoing, dramatic, and does not let his feelings show easily. He likes to fuck around, and one of his favourite ways of feeding is to seduce victims, have fun with them, and then drink. He's capable of supernatural speed and strength, he can do minor telekinesis and fire control, he can observe or feel person's history or feelings when he drinks their blood, is proficient with certain technology left over from previous era, and can manipulate it with his mind if needed.

At some point in his life, he found an abandoned castle with a cylinder on top of it, which by the time the story I've written happens, had fallen off, in a forest that was between five villages. He found out from the villagers and travellers, that it was called The Caster's Grove. (Once, this castle was a home to a powerful witch, who died underneath it and wanted it to be his Grave, named after the cylinder. Before that, it was a guard castle.) It is north from a notable big City people call Ratesiv, from its worn and rusted sign upon enterance.

He became fairly known in the villages around after he gathered bandits before the war, and took down an oppressive lord, and for a while the bandits enforced his tithe and would offer someone every week, earning him a title of Lord himself, until the bandits rose against him, and after he killed them, he would live alone again. The residents of nearby villages would call the forest he resided in the Red Forest, and call his castle the Crimson Castle.

He's dated fellow vampires, werewolves, and even humans before. Notable are one of his long term girlfriends, Ash, who broke up with him eventually to live in the City, which he refused. His long term, and one of current ones, boyfriend Miis is a leader of a werewolf pack, and his husband Shaxx. He has ocassional partner named Raven, who comes to visit him to help with gathering bodies to feed.

The only human he's considered after bad experience with life times and mortality, would be Rohan, before he knew Hunters live longer, he was trying to deny his feelings.

He joined Shaxx's plea to take care of vampires in Ratesiv who praised an old being they called Tyrant God and would attempt to resurrect his servant, son called the Oathbreaker, and believed he would help them unite against the humans, like in the war. He was alive during Shaxx's time, and they knew each other. Phoenix joined, truly, to get into the libraries of the City Vampires, and find out about this Tyrant. He had never wanted to bother Shaxx by asking about his past lover, something Shaxx never disclosed himself, but Nix glimpsed in his blood (vampires have great pleasure from drinking blood, and Phoenix would use it often enough in bed with Shaxx).

He was interrupted during searching of the libraries, he was struck by a stake, something that would not kill him either way, but the assailant had missed, and he was left with a big hole in his lower stomach, later causing him bleeding reminiscent of menstruation. He was attacked by a recently turned vampire called Hrefna, whose sire was in the castle, expecting her to join him. She apologized, in panic, and helped Phoenix with letting him drink her blood. He saw her situation, and killed her sire. He then took her with him, and taught her how to hunt. At this point, he'd fought with Rohan, and sent him away.

When Rohan returned, his opinions changed and hoping to earn Phoenix's love again, he was lonely, tired, and accepted it. He told him about his reluctance to humour humans for their short lifespan, especially seeing the age of this human, and was told about the centuries Rohan would live. He told him about his other partners, and they agreed to live together few days, and Rohan would find work in the City the other days of week.

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